Leora Gesser – Stratiography 2, 2017; watercolour, conte, acrylic ink, pastel, and lichen on paper 28 x 40 inches

Eat Dirt

"...get your face in the dirt; cram your mouth and swallow with so much greed you choke yourself, a lump in your gullet like Saint-Exupéry’s snake..." A poem by Christine Knight
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Molding Food Futures

LinYee Yuan, the founder and editor of MOLD magazine, talks about designing the future of food, working in print and her recent return to place-based practice in the community.
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Food in the City

Jonathan Nunn, the founder of Vittles, talks to The Common Table about his new book with Open City concerning food, architecture, diversity and marginal spaces in London.
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Spaceship Hour

Alone in space, their relationship with the routine of growing food is the only one our protagonist needs, until they make a mistake. A short story by Jimenez Lai.
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Foraging As Resistance

Artist film-maker Jumana Manna's new film "Foragers" is about the criminalisation of herb-picking culture in Palestine and Israel. An exclusive interview for The Common Table by Sophia Hoffinger.
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A Multispecies Banquet

Designers of the future Superflux's Refuge for Resurgence invokes the symbolic by setting a table for interspecies dialogue in the wreckage of the Anthropocene, writes Alec Carver.
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A Love Supreme

Nilesh Patel made this beautiful black and white short film about his mother making samosas for love and for the future. Twenty years later we asked him to revisit.
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